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Nancy Howell

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Noticed last week that the nut crop failed. The nuts on my pecan tree are the size of olives and falling off.

Noticed this weekend at the farm, there aren't any acorns or hickory nuts. No grass or "forbs" and the forestry service calls it, for animals to eat.

Lots of animals depend on acorns, etc. for winter. Even if the winter is not severe, they're going to have a tough time with little or no food.
 
Yup --- that happens around the globe, the news states that ( just in Somalia ) millions will die cause of no food, why do you think that happens ?
 
Nancy,

I'm so sorry for the catastrophes you are experiencing in Texas. It's clearly worse than here in Tennessee.

Along the same lines with the nut crop failure, I have a small orchard of cherries, peaches, plums and apples. The cherries are very early so I got a good crop off them. But every other tree set fruit and eventually dropped it before anything was ripe. No peaches. No plums. No apples. The drought has been very destructive here in Tennessee also.

We've had a wonderful rain for the last three days so we're getting some relief. I only wish that Texas would get some soon.

Tom in TN
 
Forgot to mention, the pear tree on the farm has one itty-bitty pear on it.

Persimmons have been dropping their fruit for a couple of weeks now.

Even the hedge apples are stunted. They"re only about the size of a base ball. Normally, they"re about the size of a grapefruit.
 
"why do you think that happens ? "

Genocide. There's plenty of food, but those who control the distribution use it as a WMD.
 
Come to Virginia. Last was dry BUT this year after a slow start we have had "RAIN". At least a inch every week. And the storms we reqularly get 5 - 6 inches.
 

We in SC got .95 inches of rain. Disappointed there wasn't more, since we are dry, just not as dry as TX.
Sure wish TX ans OK could get some rain.

KEH
 
Some places here in N.C. have had sufficient rain, but over half the state has been under drought conditions. Down East, thousands of acres of crops were wiped out by flooding from the hurricane.
Last spring my black cherry trees and plum tree were covered with blooms but did not set any fruit. I think it was from the roller coaster temps. we had. None of the other trees have much on them either, such as acorns and black walnuts.
 
Well, Nancy, by the time the wildfires kill off the critters that haven't starved to death in the drought, the lack of mast and forage will be a moot point.

Here in NW LA we have been experiencing the same high temps (more than 50 days over 100, several days above 110 here at my house) that Texas and Oklahoma have seen. Now the fires have begun over around Marshal and east into the region where the Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana borders meet.
 
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